Midnight Coding

[thistlechaser]

Nothing like breaking your MUSH after bedtime. On worknights, I try to be in bed by 11, asleep by 12. Not being very tired last night, at 11:30 I sat down to try to fix a little glitch which had been bugging me for a while.

At 11:45, the biggest and most oft-used programs on the MUSH failed. Totally and utterly. Oh god. This bit of code had literally taken me *weeks* to write. It's giant. I'm afraid of it now, I hardly understand how I did it all. At nearly midnight it stopped working. Since people were online and needing it, I stayed up to try to fix it. I couldn't, but I got a workaround in place to let people continue overnight. This morning I got up and with help from the TinyMUSH list got it working again... at least to the point where it had been before I touched it last night.

So the glitch is still there. I'm poking at it now.

Carefully.

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

So, what is it you're trying to do?

Heh, and you're welcome. I'm just mildly guilty some days that I bailed on you. I'm glad you managed to prove I'm not indispensible, though ;), and, when I remember, I'm still really proud about the pokeball system.

I know about possessiveness in code, though. Thought about it yesterday, in fact. I used to be that way, but I've realized now that I've been gone from it for so long, I'm just glad it's in use and that people *want* to use it. :)

Re:

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The short version of what I was trying to do is make a pair of attributes invisible to HSers (royalty). I thought setting them hidden would keep HSers from seeing them, so pulled my hair out when it failed to work. Turns out that only works in the later? latest? version of TinyMUSH. It's not an overly big deal, but it keeps everything from being /perfect/, so it's enough to annoy me. :)

Yeah, you should be proud of the pokeball/pokemon system. Though there are few Pokemon MU*s left out there, it's the best coded system of every game that was ever around.

The code is definately still in use, and even gets compliments now and then. Knock on wood, our MUSH is surviving where other Pokemon places have long since closed. We tend to get 45-55 folks on a night, which is not bad at all!

And no one believed a /Pokemon/ place with typing/grammar/RP standards would work. Heh heh heh. :)